Volume 3
Public Law 16–CXIX
to provide for the building an addition to the custom-house now erecting in the city of New Orleans, for the use of the district court of the United States for the state of Louisiana.
Approved May 15, 1820
Statutory text
An Act
to provide for the building an addition to the custom-house now erecting in the city of New Orleans, for the use of the district court of the United States for the state of Louisiana.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be built an addition to the custom-house now
An addition to be built to the custom-house at New Orleans.
erecting in the city of New Orleans, which shall contain rooms suitable for the use of the district court of the United States for the state of Louisiana; and that so much of the appropriation for the erection of custom-houses and public warehouses as shall be sufficient for that purpose, be, and the same is hereby declared to be, applicable to that object.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That, as soon as the said building
When the new building is completed, the present house and lot, &c. are to be sold, &c.
shall be completed, the Secretary of the Treasury shall be authorized and required to cause to be sold, at public sale, upon such terms, and in such manner, as he shall judge to be expedient, the house and lot in which the district court is now held, and to cause the amount for which they shall be sold to be paid into the treasury of the United States.
Approved, .